The compute-example readme should be modified to say that the id_rsa.pub is necessary, or an error message the key couldn't be created.
Fair point - I suspect the demo is highly geared towards Unix environments, in which id_rsa.pub and id_rsa would usually be available by default, I guess.
Pull request [1] welcome! ;-) ap [1] https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-examples